“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“I'm a cynical idealist.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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